THE SYRIAN REGIME’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS / ASSAD’S KILLING RESSOURCES
PolicyWatch 2165 – November 1, 2013 – By Jeffrey White – Eliminating Assad’s che – ical arsenal, while somewhat helpful, would do nothing to stem the more potent conventional means that his regular and irregular forces have used to kill thousands of civilians.
VAN WILGENBURG : Speaking on Kurds in Washington DC
For those living in the United States, I will be speaking at the Workshop on Global and Regional Implications of the Crisis in Syria. It will take place between 3-5 November and it will be streamed live on http://bit.ly/LehightalksSyria .
Moreover, I will be speaking at the International Conference-The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism and the Future of Turkey, Washington DC – Thursday, November 7, 2013. More information here: http://turkeyandkurds.blogspot.com/ .
International Conference: The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism & the Future of Turkey – Virginia Tech, Thursday November 7, 2013
READ HERE THE FULL PROGRAMM :
YPG statement on Efrin clashes
ANF – Efrin 01.11.2013 – The more than month long assault on Efrin carried out by the Islamic State or Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its allies is being organized by Saudi and Turkish intelligence, says a report in Özgür Gündem. The assault, according to a statement from the YPG, was first planned at a meeting a Riyadh and later finalized at a meeting of ISIS leaders and members of Turkish and Saudi intelligence in Azzaz. The YPG statement reads thus:
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – STATEMENT : UN Should Mandate Unhindered Humanitarian Access To and Within Syria
Brussels, 1 November 2013- ICG – There is more than one paradox. Even as chemical weapons inspectors enjoy unhindered access to some of the country’s most sensitive locations, UN humanitarian aid cannot reach civilians in besieged areas. This is true even only a few miles from the international organisation’s offices in Damascus, where the regime deliberately and systematically starves people in a new tactic of modern war. Regime troops that are holding on to pockets of territory in remote parts of the country suffer a similar fate at rebel hands.
Russia Is Above the Law: Where Pogroms Could Lead / Ethnic tensions in Russia are rising, and this is only the beginning.
Tatiana Stanovaya – 30 October 2013 –
The question of how to solve the “ethnic issue” has become one of the most discussed topics in Russia today. Opposition member Alexei Navalny has suggested the introduction of a visa agreement with the countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Signatures are already being collected on the Russian Public Initiative website in support of such a project.
PUTIN THE „BUTCHER OF GROSNY“ – HERO OF WESTERN PEACENIKS
The Grozny ballistic missile attack was a wave of Russianballistic missile strikes on the ChechencapitalGrozny on October 21, 1999, early in the Second Chechen War. The attack killed at least 118 people according to initial reports,[1] mostly civilians, or at least 137 immediate dead according to the HALO Trust count.[2] Hundreds of people were also injured, many of them later died.
Putin’s Political Prisoners
Five Reasons US Should Change Policies Toward Syria’s Kurds
By: Amberin Zaman for Al-Monitor Posted on October 31. – Syria’s most influential Kurdish group, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has been running a belt of mainly Kurdish settlements along the Turkish border since July 2012, has been knocking on Washington’s door for some time, but it remains firmly shut.
PUTINS SOLDIERS OF FURTUNE IN SYRIA : Russia Spotlight: Are Russian Private Military Contractors Guarding Regime Economic Objectives In Syria?
By Joanna Paraszczuk – EAworldview – 1.11.2013 – A Russian security firm has denied reports that it has deployed personnel to Syria to assist the Syrian regime. However, Russian media sources say they have tracked and interviewed a man hired by a private military firm, the Slavonic Corps Limited, who claimed to have been contracted to guard regime economic objectives.
TODAY’S MESOP’S SYRIA INSIGHT / THE ISRAELI ATTACK
Israeli aircraft struck a military basenear Syria’s port city of Latakia overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, according to U.S. officials. There have be no official statements from Syria or Israel, however an explosion was reported at a missile storage site in the area. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rightssaid, “Several explosions were heard in an air defense base in the Snubar Jableh area.” According to a U.S. official, Israel targeted Russian-made missiles that were to be transferred to Hezbollah. While Israel does not comment on military operations, it has been accused of several strikes on Syrian territory this year.
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